Windows 10: margins not printing correctly

looking for some help please. Using a dell all in one desktop pc. A dell mono laser printer. just upgrade to win 10 (from 7).
use "word" for all my company documents, and documents set with specific margins and headers.
worked fine on win7, but now same document printing to slightly different layout, which is not good enough for my purposes.
basically its printing smaller than before, so font smaller, and more importantly, gutter at bottom of margin much bigger.
As I'm writing this it seems another way to describe the problem is that the page contents are being somehow shrunk.
A4 paper with mostly text on .........

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance...

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Downloaded the newest version of Windows and now cannot print Google Doc properly.

Hi -

Everything else prints fine. I downloaded the Google Doc to Word and it prints fine in Word - it is only as a Google Doc that I cannot print it correctly. The margins are off - so much so that I cannot read the entire document. I tried experimenting with
margin sizes but could not solve the problem.

As I mentioned, I only had this problem when I downloaded the most recent Office software so I think there must be something in that which is causing this problem.

 

Canon MP 270 driver issue

that's disappointing, I don't have an answer i'm afraid, some information that might help somebody else to provide an answer.

What program are you printing from?

does it happen when you print from a different application?

do you get the same result printing to PDF (using Microsofts Print to PDF option in printers)?

have you tried setting margins to 0? what happens?

(silly question) does the same thing happen if you use the printers copy facility?

Don't suppose this is any help?

from the manual

How Do I Print with Even Margins?

When you print on a bordered layout, the margins on the left and right or the top and bottom may become wider than the other, depending on the image and printer.

To always print with even margins, select the Always crop images when selecting a layout with margins checkbox on the Advanced tab of the Preferences dialog box.

To display the Preferences dialog box, click (Settings) in the Layout/Print screen or select Preferences... from the File menu.

Crop the photo to apply even margins individually.

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Booklet Printing

The booklet printing function allows you to print data for a booklet. Data is printed on both sides of the paper. This type of printing ensures that pages can be collated properly, in page number order, when the printed sheets are folded and stapled at the
center.

The procedure for performing booklet printing is as follows:

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Set booklet printing Select Booklet from the Page Layout list on the Page Setup tab. The current settings are displayed in the settings preview on the left side of the window.

3. Select the print paper size Select the size of the paper loaded in the machine from the Printer Paper Size list.

4. Set the margin for stapling and the margin width Click Specify... and specify the following settings in the Booklet Printing dialog box, and then click OK.

Margin for stapling Select which side should the stapling margin be on when the booklet is completed.

Insert blank page To leave one side of a sheet blank, check the check box, and select the page to be left blank.

Margin Enter the margin width. The specified width from the center of the sheet becomes the margin width for one page.

Page Border To print a page border around each document page, check the check box.

5. Complete the setup Click OK on the Page Setup tab.

When you execute print, the document will be printed on one side of a sheet of paper. When the printing of one side is complete, set the paper correctly by following the message and click OK. When the printing of the other side is complete, fold the paper at
the center of the margin and make a booklet.

Important

Booklet cannot be selected when a media type other than Plain Paper is selected for Media Type. When Booklet is selected, Duplex Printing, Staple Side, Print from Last Page, and Collate appear grayed out and are unavailable.

Note The stamp and background are not printed on blank sheets inserted with the Insert blank page function of Booklet Printing

 

Hi, welcome:*Smile

Stupid question: did you update the Dell Printer Drivers and Software after you upgraded Windows from 7 to 10?
("Best practice" might be to cleanly uninstall and reinstall the printer drivers/software, making sure you have the most current, Win10-compatible version from the Dell site.)

And is MS Office up to date and fully patched?

It might help us to better help you if we knew a bit more about the printer model, version of M$ Office, and whether you are on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, at least for starters....

Cheers,
MM

 

Thank you for the reply. Short answer - no. But of course will get that done now......... watch this space. AF